With Summer 2022 underway, the Irish capital has plenty to offer first-time visitors and indigenous Dubliners alike. Here’s 32 of the city’s highlights. GLASNEVIN CEMETERY It is said that if you really want to understand a people’s history, you...
In 2009, a Swiss financier caught a bluntnose sixgill shark near Carriagaholt, County Clare. It was the largest yet fish caught by a rod and line in Irish or British waters. Turtle headed down a week later to see if he could do any better. He could not. Unlimited...
One minute I’m having a quiet pint in a charming West Kerry pub, sprawled beside a flickering log-fire, my toes rattling along to an old fellow playing a polka on a squeezy box, thinking ‘ah yes, this is the only way to pass the long, dark winters’. And next thing I...
A historical ramble around the Bohemian capital of the Czech Republic, written shortly after the city was badly damaged by the worst flooding in its history. Unlimited access for €1 a month / €12 a year...
It is Cambodia's misfortune to be internationally remembered for a bloody purge in the 1970s that left two million of its most intelligent citizens dead. The small Asian nation's subsequent media coverage has generally concentrated on military coups, a Communist...